black holes and gray matter. in one thousand tangos.

             
“NASA has lost data from some of its earliest missions to the moon because the machines used to read the tapes were scrapped and cannot be rebuilt. A wise librarian will wish to keep in working order a few antique computers that can read such ancient technologies as CDs and USB thumb-drives. […] Mistakes 30 years ago mean that much of the early digital age is already a closed book (or no book at all) to historians.”

Bit rot: The world is losing its ability to reconstruct history | The Economist

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